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Claude Gueant: Toulouse, France

Police Officers Dept: TOULOUSE, France - France's interior minister says a gunman suspected in a wave of killings has stopped talking to police, and that authorities have been monitoring him for years, according to Winnipeg Free Press. The man has thrown his handgun out a window but has other weapons on him, including an AK-47 assault rifle, and has used them in volleys with police surrounding the building in this southwestern city, Gueant said and police officers and firefighters stand near a building in Toulouse, France, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 where a suspect in the shooting at he Ozar Hatorah Jewish school has been spotted. French police exchanged fire and were negotiating Wednesday with the gunman who claims connections to al-Qaida and is suspected of killing three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers. AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere Claude Gueant was speaking Wednesday in the southern city of Toulouse, where a police raid is under way targeting the gunman. He is suspected in three shootings that killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in recent days. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.